Recently, Mozilla has pushed the second Alpha build of Firefox 13 to its Aurora channel for you to play with.

So what’s new? There are a couple of neat new features that will definitely improve your experience. For example, the Awesome Bar will now auto completes typed URLs and in addition to that, a Speed Dial has been finally incorporated, which draws from Opera and Google Chrome.
Anything else? Yes, there is also a redesigned home page as seen in the screenshots below.

Firefox 13 Alpha Changelog

When opening a new tab, users are now presented with their most visited pages

The Awesome Bar now auto-completes typed URLs

SPDY protocol now enabled by default for faster browsing on supported sites

Restored background tabs are not loaded by default for faster startup

Smooth scrolling is now enabled by default

The default home page now has quicker access to bookmarks, history, settings, and more

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And here I was thinking Opera users are reasonable people. But it seems like they are no different from Apple blind fanboys. Thinking that the subject of their obsession is above everything and is the manifestation of Perfect.

“The Awesome Bar now auto-completes typed URLs” = I wonder why that took so long. I always had to turn that feature on manually by going into about:config, something a more novice user would never do, especially as the warning that pops up beforehand discourages users from playing around with settings in about:config.